'Repentance is not an emotion. It is not feeling sorry for your sins. It is a decision. It is deciding that you have been wrong in suppoosing that you could manage your own own life and be your own god; it is deciding that you were wrong in thinking that you had, or could get, the stregnth, education and training to make it on your own; it is deciding that you have been told a pack of lies about yourself and your neighbors and your world. And it is deciding that God in Jesus Christ is telling you the truth.'
Eugene H Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction, p.23.
